{"id":132412,"date":"2024-12-02T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132412"},"modified":"2024-12-02T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:19:51","slug":"bernie-sanders-agrees-with-elon-musk-on-slashing-the-pentagons-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132412","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Agrees with Elon Musk on Slashing the Pentagon&#8217;s Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThey may not agree on much, but when it comes to Pentagon spending, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bernie-sanders\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bernie-sanders\" data-tag=\"bernie-sanders\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> and billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> are aligned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSanders, who usually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/bernie-sanders-amazon-bezos-725282\/\">makes enemies of billionaires like Musk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1863268770371772863\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a> Sunday, \u201cElon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It\u2019s lost track of billions. Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMusk, tapped by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> to run a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump-department-of-government-efficiency-doge-1235164306\/\">new Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> (DOGE) with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSanders isn\u2019t the only lawmaker on the left who is open to working with DOGE to reduce defense spending. Democratic Rep. Mo Khanna called out \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse\u201d by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/department-of-defense\/\" id=\"auto-tag_department-of-defense\" data-tag=\"department-of-defense\">Department of Defense<\/a>, noting its failed audits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWhen it comes to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse and opening the 5 primes to more competition, there are Democrats on [the House Armed Services Committee] who will work with @elonmusk and @DOGE,\u201d Khanna wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepRoKhanna\/status\/1861091940973871436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post on X<\/a>, the platform Musk owns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cCool!\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1861096199702618398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> to Khanna on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCongress has mandated that the Defense Department must pass an audit by fiscal year 2028. Last month, the department released its seventh failed audit \u2014 meaning once again it could not account for all of its spending \u2014\u00a0the Pentagon claimed it is continuing to make progress toward a clean audit by the congressional deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSurprisingly, defense spending isn\u2019t the only issue where Sanders and Musk agree. Both have shown support for making diabetes and weight loss drugs like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozempic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozempic\" data-tag=\"ozempic\">Ozempic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wegovy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wegovy\" data-tag=\"wegovy\">Wegovy<\/a> less expensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cFrom a moral perspective, does it bother you knowing that keeping the price of Ozempic and Wegovy so high in the United States could lead to the preventable deaths of tens of thousands of Americans?\u201d Sanders, who currently chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, asked Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen, CEO of Ozempic and Wegovy manufacturer Novo Nordisk, during a hearing on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA Sanders-led investigation found that while the list price for a four-week supply of Ozempic in the U.S. costs slightly less than $1,000, a four-week supply is available in other nations for less than $200. Four weeks of Wegovy in the U.S. is listed at more than $1,300 while in other nations, it costs less than $200 for the same amount of medicine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSanders has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1836075388021399831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a> that generic manufacturers are able to profit from selling generic Ozempic for just $100 a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cNovo Nordisk, which has made nearly $50 billion in sales off of Ozempic and Wegovy, charges Americans almost $1,000 a month \u2014 the highest prices in the world. Why? Excessive corporate greed,\u201d Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1836075388021399831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tResponding to a video of Sanders pointing out his agreement with Musk on making these drugs less expensive, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1838758206585094625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on X, \u201cI really am with Bernie on this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOf course, this doesn\u2019t mean Sanders and Musk are destined to be friends. Sanders has frequently criticized Musk for his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1292083137481146368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vast accumulation of wealth<\/a>, his millions in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1852431622525571494\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">donations to Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign<\/a> and his acceptance of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1397619187867062278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government contracts to fund SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-pentagon-budget-1235188626\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may not agree on much, but when it comes to Pentagon spending, Sen. 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